Ejecting CD after kickstart installation

[Dan Trainor]

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Mattias Andersson wrote:
> Hi Marc!
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> This was actually one of the first things I tried and it did not work.
> I managed to get it working now though, and what I had to do was to
> change the path for the eject-command. It seems like Fedora, before
> running the %post -part of the installation actually unmounts the
> temporary installation system that is mounted and mounts the newly
> installed system.
> Therefore, to make this work with Fedora 3 I added the following to the
> %post part of the Kickstart-configuration:
> 
> echo "Ejecting CD"
> mkdir /mnt/hda
> mkdir /mnt/hdb
> mkdir /mnt/hdc
> mkdir /mnt/hdd
> 
> mknod /dev/hda b 3 0
> mknod /dev/hdb b 3 64
> mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0
> mknod /dev/hdd b 22 64
> 
> echo '/dev/hda /mnt/hda iso9660,ro 0 0'  >> /etc/fstab
> echo '/dev/hdb /mnt/hdb iso9660,ro 0 0'  >> /etc/fstab
> echo '/dev/hdc /mnt/hdc iso9660,ro 0 0'  >> /etc/fstab
> echo '/dev/hdd /mnt/hdd iso9660,ro 0 0'  >> /etc/fstab
> 
> /usr/bin/eject /dev/hda
> /usr/bin/eject /dev/hdb
> /usr/bin/eject /dev/hdc
> /usr/bin/eject /dev/hdd
> 
> Thank you all for coming with tips!
> 
> Mattias
> 
>> From: "Marc Wiatrowski" <wia at iglass.net>
>> Reply-To: Discussion list about Kickstart <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
>> To: "'Discussion list about Kickstart'" <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
>> Subject: RE: Ejecting CD after kickstart installation
>> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:01:15 -0500
>>
>> I got this from the list a while back and has been working for me
>> with Enterprise 3.  You could probably narrow down the devices,
>> but this just makes sure it hits everything.
>>
>> hopefully its useful,
>> marc
>>
>> ---
>> %post --nochroot
>>
>> mkdir /mnt/hda
>> mkdir /mnt/hdb
>> mkdir /mnt/hdc
>> mkdir /mnt/hdd
>>
>> mknod /dev/hda b 3 0
>> mknod /dev/hdb b 3 64
>> mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0
>> mknod /dev/hdd b 22 64
>>
>> echo '/dev/hda /mnt/hda iso9660,ro 0 0'  >> /etc/fstab
>> echo '/dev/hdb /mnt/hdb iso9660,ro 0 0'  >> /etc/fstab
>> echo '/dev/hdc /mnt/hdc iso9660,ro 0 0'  >> /etc/fstab
>> echo '/dev/hdd /mnt/hdd iso9660,ro 0 0'  >> /etc/fstab
>>
>> /mnt/sysimage/usr/bin/eject /dev/hda
>> /mnt/sysimage/usr/bin/eject /dev/hdb
>> /mnt/sysimage/usr/bin/eject /dev/hdc
>> /mnt/sysimage/usr/bin/eject /dev/hdd
>>
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Mattias Andersson
>> > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 11:14 AM
>> > To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
>> > Subject: Ejecting CD after kickstart installation
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm installing Fedora 3 on a lot of machines in our rendering
>> > farm using a
>> > kickstart installation.
>> > The best would be if I could somehow get the kickstart to
>> > eject the cd
>> > straight after it has finished the first phase, i.e. before the first
>> > reboot. Cause then I don't need to connect a monitor and
>> > keyboard to the
>> > machine, all I need to do is to put the first installation CD
>> > and let it
>> > install via NFS and eventually it would just be done.
>> > The network path and such information for the installation is
>> > provided via
>> > DHCP and the installation CD has been slightly modified to
>> > boot straight in
>> > to the kickstart-mode.
>> >
>> > Has anyone been succesful in doing this?
>> >
>> > Any suggestions would be very much apprecieated.
>> >
>> > Mattias
>>
>>

Hi -

I was going to chime in about specifying a full path to the eject
binary.  I battled this one for a long while haha.

Sorry I was late.

Thanks
- -dant
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